Open Education

An emerging set of online resources are being made available to K-College educators to help build collaborative educational ciriculum to promote widespread availability of basic education.  The following resource encourage community participation in the development of educational matierals.

Curriki: The Global Education & Learning Community

Curriki is an ever-growing collection of free lessons, assessments, resources and textbooks. The resources have all been developed by members of the curriki community. In the near future you, as a member of Curriki, will be able to comment on and edit the materials you see. For now, Curriki staff and volunteers are trying to review all the contributed materials, but if you see an error, please let us know.

Curriki's mission is to improve education around the world by empowering teachers, students and parents with user-created, open source curricula, and it's all free! We believe that access to knowledge and learning tools is a basic right of every child. Our goal is to make curricula and learning resources available to everyone.

MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning & Online Teaching

MERLOT is a leading edge, user-centered, searchable collection of peer reviewed, higher education, online learning materials created by registered members, and a set of faculty development support services. MERLOT's vision is to be a premiere online community where faculty, staff, and students from around the world share their learning materials and pedagogy.

MERLOT's strategic goal is to improve the effectiveness of teaching and learning by increasing the quantity and quality of peer reviewed online learning materials that can be easily incorporated into faculty designed courses.

Connexions

Connexions is an environment for collaboratively developing, freely sharing, and rapidly publishing scholarly content on the Web. Our Content Commons-licensed materials contains educational materials for everyone — from children to college students to professionals — organized in small modules that are easily connected into larger courses. All content is free to use and reuse under the Creative Commons "attribution" license.